Sundance Scoop

Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen's Rated X has been tipped by Variety Daily as one of the last hot tickets at the Sundance festival, but Estevez is still steaming. Funding provided by the Showtime cable network guaranteed first showing rights, but Estevez, faced with the buzz, wants the movie to go on general release first. 'He's furious, but he was aware of the conditions of the deal when he made it,' a close source said. Although it feels as if everyone in show biz is in Park City at the moment, there are a few notable exceptions. Stanley Tucci, star and director of Meet Joe Gould was unable to attend his own world premiere, because his wife was giving birth to twins. Ian Holm, co-star of the bio-pic, told the audience, 'I hope their timing gets better.' Tucci wasn't the only no show, but at least he had an excuse; at a press conference for Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her Cameron Diaz was expected but mysteriously went AWOL. If you hear an urban myth that American Psycho was so vivid a man went into a seizure, laugh long and hard; the truth is far more amusing. At the press screening of Psycho, an unnamed hack was so exhausted from the previous evening's libations that he fell asleep. The woman beside him was convinced he was having a heart attack, when instead all he was having was forty winks. After being force fed granola bars and thoroughly checked by Sundance volunteers, paramedics, and a few hung over journos, the man was pronounced alive but mortifyingly embarrassed. No-one has seen him since, perhaps he's hanging with Cameron. Last but not least, Groove, the American take on a night on San Francisco's rave scene, is the latest movie to get the Sundance press in a tizzy. Not only was the party the hardest and best one to get into, entertaining such lovies as Neve Campbell, Christian Bale, Vincent D'Onofrio and Melissa Joan Hart but the director Greg Harrison is now in "exclusive negotiations" with Sony Pictures Classics. However, Mr. Bale couldn't stay up late and rave all night. Not only did he have members of the evil press corp calling early in the morning, he also had to leave straight after to put the finishing touches on his baddy role for "Shaft" in New York at 6:30 the next morning.